There is a certain pitilessness in her analysis of Hetty's shallow, frivolous little soul, almost as if she were saying-See here, what stuff this beauty which you adore is made of in reality!
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
It meant the beginning of struggle with pitilessness in man and nature.
"Rose of Dutcher's Coolly"
Hamlin Garland
"I used to think that his strain of Indian blood, remote as it was, might have something to do with the cunning and pitilessness of the man.
"The Woman in Black"
Edmund Clerihew Bentley